Not much point?
Dogstar, look at me, this is very important, your post makes a huge point! Really big point! The little humble classic is one of the best SAK's. It offers so much in a tiny package, it's almost mythic. Of course, I'm on record as a huge fan of the little thing, and I was a reluctant convert by way of my better half, Karen.
The classic is THE most popular of the SAK's by sales and production numbers. More people buy a classic than any other two SAK's combined. Most of those buyers are non knife people. People who don't really care that much about knives if at all, but are just smart enough to realize they do need some kind of small cutting tool for todays semi civilized world.
The humble little classic is not just a cutting tool, but also covers snipping, screwing, some filing, and plucking. It's not your granddaddies pen knife of yore. It's a tiny multi use personal tool for those annoying little problems that life has a way of tossing up in front of you in the course of the day.
I have been for most of my life, like most of you, an obsessed knife nut. MOstly traditional pocketknives like my old Buck 301 stockman, my Northwoods stockman, and most of all, my peanuts. I love my little peanut. But when it gets right down to it, the little pocket knife that has seen the most use, every single day, for the past twenty years, the classic has been with me everyday, in all parts of the country, doing stuff that needed to be done. Opening all kinds of packages, cutting fishing line in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and much else.
It all comes down to wants and needs. We actuyally don't really need much in todays 21st century urban/suburban life style. But we
want more than what we
need. For most of modern life cutting, a small one inch blade is fine for opening mail, UPS packages, twine, or plastic blister packaging. If we need heavier duty cutting, a Stanley utility knife is what issued inmost construction sites these days, or a folding Husky or Super knife, both holding a contractor grade one inch cutting blade not much thicker than the blade of a classic. I've seen the sliding blade utility knives deal with all kinds of things on job sites, and if worse comes to worse and a blade breaks, it's just replaced with no crying. But it's rear to see a Stanley blade break, even with the so called "hard use" they are put to. Cutting sheet rock, stripping cable, slicing open bags of cement.
I think Insipid Moniker is right one when he says one can get by with a Vic classic and a box cutter. In fact, considering how many people don't even carry a knife these days, a classic and a box cutter will put you ahead of most other people! And like dogstar said, you can put it on your keyring, and you'll never be without a small sharp blade with a few tools. :thumbup:
I'm sure a lot of people go pretty far with just these.
